If you are a non-British national and want to get married in the UK or enter into a civil partnership with your fiancé who is a British citizen or has settled status in the UK, you can apply for a UK Fiancé visa. Your partner in the UK must sponsor you for you to be eligible to apply for a UK Fiancé visa. UK Fiancé visa allows you to stay in the UK for up to 6 months. Within six months of your arrival in the UK, you must marry or enter into a civil partnership with your UK-based partner. If you
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UK spouse visa allows a non-British individual with a partner who is either a British citizen, holds ILR, Pre-settled status, settled status, ECAA, refugee or holds Humantarian Protection in the UK to join them. After completing 5 years on a UK Spouse visa or Partner Visa, you can apply for an indefinite leave to remain under Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules. ILR will allow you to live and work in the UK permanently without any time restriction.
By visaandmigration.com - 1 year ago
Once a person has resided in the UK for 20 years which can be a legal or illegal stay, the person can usually be permitted to stay in the UK. A private life route means if an individual has lived in the UK for a
substantial period and developed a private life in the UK, they can apply for permission to stay in the UK on a private life route.
A 20-year private life visa is for adults over 18 who have lived in the UK ‘lawfully’ or ‘unlawfully’ for 20 years or more. An application based on 20 y
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Those applying for an ILR who meet all the suitability requirements on five years partner or parent route but meet only some eligibility requirements can apply for ILR based on a ten-year partner or parent
route.
The 10-year route as a partner or parent applies from within and outside the UK. Outside UK application will be considered mainly on exceptional circumstances.
The 10 years partner or parent route is mainly for people who are unable to meet the requirements of 5 years route and t
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A sponsorship license is mandatory for any UK company to employ a non-British or non-Settled worker. However, it comes with certain duties and compliance on the part of the sponsorship license holder or sponsor. If the Home Office finds that the sponsor has failed to comply with its duties, their UK sponsorship license can be revoked or suspended.
To meet the duties, knowledge of rules and resources is required to ensure your organization is compliant.
From the
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Children below the age of 18 who do not automatically become British citizens based on birth can be registered as British citizens by way of entitlement or discretion under section 3 (1) of the British
Nationality Act 1981. When discretion is applied, the Secretary of State for the Home Department decides based on the individual applicant's circumstances.
Children cannot naturalize as a British citizens. But they can consider for registration of
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The Appendix Private Life route is based on individuals who have developed personal life in the UK. Seven-year child route is for a child who was born in the UK and has lived seven years continuously in the UK to qualify for an immediate settlement.
Before new changes took place, a child born in the UK and has lived continuously for seven years in the UK could apply immediately for limited leave to remain. However, with new changes taking effect “appendix
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Those who cannot claim British citizenship based on their birth can choose the way of naturalization as a British citizen. Unless you are married to or in a civil partnership with a British citizen, you need to meet
two essential criteria to apply for naturalization as a British citizen under Section 6 (1) British Nationality Act 1981., and they are:
1. You must have lived in the UK for five years and
2. You must have had one of the following for 12 months after your five-year residency per
By visaandmigration.com - 1 year ago
If you have a partner, spouse, or parent in the UK and you want to join him/her, you can apply for a UK Dependent Visa. Your partner, spouse, or parent need not be a British citizen, which is the case in a UK Spouse visa or Civil partner visa. So the main applicant partner/Spouse can be on any Point Based System Visa, such as Skilled Worker/Tier 2 Visa
To be able to apply for a dependent visa, you must be a dependent family member of an individual
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One of the essential requirements when applying for the UK Spouse Visa is the financial requirement. Whether you apply from outside the UK for leave to enter or from within the UK for leave to remain, you and your partner (sponsor) must meet the financial requirement. Appendix FM of the immigration rules contains minimum financial requirements for both types of applications (leave to enter or leave to remain).
Financial requirements can be met in different ways, for example, through Income o
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